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Fashion designer Dang Thi Minh Hanh has been awarded the Fukuoka Prize, which honors people for their contributions to promoting outstanding culture in the Asian region.

“Minh Hanh has brought the beauty of Vietnamese culture and fashion worldwide. She deserves the prize,” Sadakari Atsuhito, deputy mayor of the Japanese city of Fukuoka, said at the award ceremony in Hanoi Tuesday.

Minh Hanh, 54, won the Arts and Culture Prize. The other winners of the annual award are Thant Myint-U of Myanmar who was conferred the Grand Prize and Ramachandra Guha of India who received the Academic Prize. Both are historians and writers.

Atsuhito said all Fukuoka Prize winners are outstanding people who inherited, developed and introduced diverse and unique cultures in Asia to the world.

“Minh Hanh, a representative of Vietnamese designers, has been creating modern designs with a combination of traditional woven brocade patterns of the ethnic people.

“She has organized major fashion shows in Europe, America and Asia, introducing to the world the beauty of Vietnamese fashion and culture.

“Moreover, she contributed significantly to the promotion of fashion and culture through the training of young designers and expanding the Vietnam fashion market.”

Two models in clothes designed by Minh Hanh using a combination of brocade patterns. Photo: Phuong Le